A Comprehensive Monograph on the Old Believers of Paazerye Has Been Published
A collective monograph titled "Old Believers of Belarusian Paazerye: History and Culture" has been published by "Belarusian Science" publishing house within the framework of the work of the Kondrat Krapiva Institute of Art Studies, Ethnography and Folklore of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, writes bellit.info.
A significant part of the almost 500-page publication was written by Uladzimir Auseichyk, an expert in funeral and memorial practices of the Belarusian Padzvinne and its surroundings, who has been studying Old Believer culture for a long time.
Among the authors of the book are also researchers Tatsiana Valodzina, Volha Labacheuskaya, Volha Afanasieva, Sviatlana Liavontsieva, who wrote chapters on the tradition of incantations, folk textiles, icons, and book culture.
The publication features rich illustrative material, which, in addition to common archival and expedition photographs, extensively uses family photos of the Old Believers themselves, including about two dozen funeral photographs published in the section dedicated to burials.
The book can already be purchased at "Akademichnaya Kniha" in Minsk.
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